Child/Adolescent to Parent Violence/Abuse Improvement Worker

Category:Children and Young Persons Worker Co-Located

Type:Full Time

Location:PAN Hampshire

Contract length:Fixed Term

Stop Domestic Abuse is a trauma informed organisation, the work we do to support those affected by domestic abuse may be triggering for those with past trauma. Please only apply if you are living free from abuse. If you’d like to talk to us about this, please get in touch.

Main purpose and scope of the job

This role is co-located within Hampshire Children’s Services to support the development, restructuring and improvement of interventions for families where children and young people are using abusive, harmful or unhealthy behaviours towards parents or carers.

The postholder will lead on the delivery of trauma-informed, child-centred interventions, while also working at a systems level to embed clear pathways for parents and carers to access voluntary sector support as part of statutory children’s services work.

The role contributes to early help, safeguarding and edge-of-care responses, aiming to improve outcomes for children, reduce harm within families, and prevent escalation into statutory or criminal justice systems.

The CAPVA Improvement Worker is a specialist practitioner and development role, working directly with children, young people and families, while also supporting practice development, pathway design and multi-agency working across Children’s Services and voluntary sector partners.

The postholder will be:

Delivering targeted one-to-one and group interventions with children and young people

Supporting parents and carers affected by child-to-parent abuse

Working alongside Children’s Services practitioners to strengthen responses to CPA

Embedding clear referral pathways to voluntary sector provision within statutory workflows

Contributing to service development, learning and improved outcomes across Hampshire

This role requires flexibility and travel across multiple sites within Hampshire; therefore, a full driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential.

Available Posts:

Hampshire:
Reference Number: STOPDA877
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months (Co-Located with Children’s Services)
Hours Per Week: 37 (Monday – Thursday: 9am – 5pm & Friday: 9am – 4:30pm)

Hampshire:
Reference Number: STOPDA878
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 12 Months (Co-Located with Children’s Services)
Hours Per Week: 37 (Monday – Thursday: 9am – 5pm & Friday: 9am – 4:30pm)

Applying for this post

Please download and complete the job pack, equalities monitoring form and job application form listed at the top of this page.

You can apply by:

• Submitting your application and equal opportunities forms via the online form below
• Emailing your completed application and equal opportunities forms to: humanresources@stopdomesticabuse.uk
• Posting your application and equal opportunities forms to: FAO: Human Resources, Stop Domestic Abuse, PO Box 53, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 1UA

There is no closing date for this post, we will keep the vacancy open until we have successfully appointed to the role. Once your application has been reviewed we will contact you to let you know if you have been shortlisted for an interview.

We particularly welcome applicants from BAMER communities that are currently under-represented in our organisation.

Appointment will be on merit alone.

We will recruit the first suitable applicants, so apply early as we may close applications earlier.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.